“I make art about the self that tells you nothing about me.”

“I make art that questions self reveal and concealment.”

“I make art that masks and reveals the masks that make the self.”

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Janice Ka-Wa Cheung is an artist-researcher born in Hong Kong. She completed her studies in media art at the City University of Hong Kong in 2017, and her MPhil research focused on the embodiment of the eye in interactive installations, resulting in several conference presentations.

 

Janice is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. She continues to pursue research-creation study with interest in revealing the multifaceted digital self through installation art. Her project examines how digital technology provides one stage to explore and curate multiple representations of self, and at the same time questions how the infrastructure and algorithms of the digital media twist one’s self-images and encourage or even impose upon one to see the self from certain ways. The project aims to reveal one’s postmodern, fragmented, and polymorphic identity by decontextualizing and dissolving one’s apparent representation. She believes that emphasizing fragmentation and ambiguity could encourage one to consciously feel and examine the ways of seeing self in a living world that is dynamically composed of assemblies of human and nonhuman actants.